The Pioneer Press’ T.C. Rover takes part in the St. Paul Winter Carnival’s Torchlight Parade every year … but this year the minivan had a weird gizmo installed in the front, atop a tall pole. Read More

I’m addicted to Instagram, the popular photo-focused social network, but the service is frustrating in some ways.

There’s no desktop-posting option, for one thing. I’d love to upload photos via a Macintosh or Windows PC, but that’s not an option, either via a native app or a browser interface. Instagram posting is mobile-exclusive.

By mobile, I mean phone-only. Instagram does not have tablet apps, either. Oh, the phone apps will run on tablets, but they are not tablet-native (that is, customized to a tablet’s larger dimensions), and they look terrible.

Isn’t it time Instagram made use of its service a bit more flexible?

Until that day comes, I have to devise my own ways for making Instagram easier and more efficient to use. Read More

If you haven’t visited the Pioneer Press website in a while — perhaps out of frustration with its glitchiness, glaring incompatibility with mobile devices, and so on — you might want to take another look.